Love by Orstavik, Hanne

Love (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780914671947)

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Format: Paperback
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Love by Orstavik, Hanne

Love

$18.00
Love by Orstavik, Hanne

Love

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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WINNER OF THE 2019 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

A mother and son move to a village in northern Norway, each ensconced in their own world. Their distance has fatal consequences.

Love is the story of Vibeke and Jon, a mother and son who have just moved to a small place in the north of Norway. It's the day before Jon's birthday, and a travelling carnival has come to the village. Jon goes out to sell lottery tickets for his sports club, and Vibeke is going to the library. From here on we follow the two individuals on their separate journeys through a cold winter's night - while a sense of uneasiness grows. Love illustrates how language builds its own reality, and thus how mother and son can live in completely separate worlds. This distance is found not only between human beings, but also within each individual. This novel shows how such distance may have fatal consequences.

Author: Hanne Orstavik
ISBN-10: 0914671944
ISBN-13: 9780914671947
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Language: English
Published: 02/13/2018
Pages: 180
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.80w x 0.40d
Award: National Book Awards - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2017
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2017
Publishers Weekly 12/18/2017
By Hanne Orstavik
By Hanne Orstavik
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With the publication of the novel CUT in 1994, Hanne ﾘrstavik (b. 1969) embarked on a career that would make her one of the most remarkable and admired authors in Norwegian contemporary literature. Her literary breakthrough came three years later with the publication of LOVE (Kj誡lighet), which in 2006 was voted the 6th best Norwegian book of the last 25 years in a prestigious contest in Dagbladet. Since then the author has written several acclaimed and much discussed novels and received a host of literary prizes.

About the Translator: Martin Aitken is the acclaimed translator of numerous novels from Danish and Norwegian, including works by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Peter Hg, Jussi Adler-Olsen, and Pia Juul, and his translations of short stories and poetry have appeared in many literary journals and magazines. In 2012 he was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Nadia Christensen Translation Prize.

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